Frank brown



(N1) Model.)

F. BROWN.

- WAGON SHACKLE.

No. 459,991. Patented Sept. 22, 1891.

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rn: mums versus co., Puma-muc, msmnarou, n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK BROWN, OF NEWw YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DIEDRICH KATT,OF SAME PLACE.

WAGON-SHACKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,991, datedSeptember 22, 1891.

l Application filed March 26, 1891. Serial No. 386.485. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK BROWN, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Wagon-Shackles, of which the followingisa specification. f

This invention has for its object to provide novel means for connectingthe transverse spring of a vehicle with the side bars of the body; andto this end the invention consists in the combination, with thetransverse end spring and the side bars of a vehicle, of a pair ofclips, each embracing a side bar and provided at opposite sides thereofwith pendent bolt ends having nuts, upper shackle-sections, eachprovided with horizontal laterally-projeotingperforated lugs, throughwhich the bolt ends of one of the clips extend to clamp the upper1shackle-section against the under side 0f a side bar, and lowershacklesections, each having a cross-head arranged in sliding engagementwith an upper shacklesection and slidable back and forth between thenuts on the pendent bolt ends, whereby the nuts operate as stops toprevent displacement of the lower shackle-sections, as will be morefully hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a side View of a portion of a wagon-body and side bar,showing my new shackle applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a crosssection on theline mm of Fig. l. Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views of the upper andlower parts of my improved shackle detached from' 'the shackle in twoparts or sections adapted to slide upon each other, one part A beingconnected to the end of the spring and the other part B to the side bar.The under side of the part A is made with two flanges C C at its ends,forming a recess D, which receives the end of the wagon-spring E, whichis provided with an eye F'to receive the headed bolt G, that passesthrough holes in the said flanges C and through the eye F and is securedby a nut I'I on its end.

The upper side of part A of the shackle is provided with a T-shaped headI, which is adapted to slide back and forthin a T-shaped receptacle J,made in part B of the shacl'rle. The construction and form of said partsA B of the shackle are clearly shown in Figs. 3

and 4, where the T-shaped head and T-shaped receptacle of the parts A Bare seen to be adapted to interlock with each other and to admitof-their sliding upon each other, the post P of the T-shaped head Ibeing adapted to slide to and fro in the opening Q, made in the bottomof the receptacle J. The top of the said part B of the shackle isprovided on its front and rear with horizontal laterallyprojectingperforated lugs K K, through whose perforations extend the threaded boltendsL L of clips M M, which pass over the side bars N N, and which aresecured to them and the shackles by means of nuts O O,screwed upon thebolt ends L L of the clips.

The parts A B of the shackle are prevented 'from becoming separated fromeach other by the bolt ends L L, which, with the nuts O O, act as stopstoprevent them from becoming separated or sliding off from each other.

I do not broadly claim a shackle composed of upper and lower sections soconnected that the lower section can slide horizontally on the uppersection, as such does not of itself constitute my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the transverse end spring E and the side bars N ofa vehicle, of the clips M, each embracing a sido bar and provided atopposite sides thereof with pendent bolt ends L, having a nut O, theupper shackle-sections B, each provided with horizontallaterallyprojecting perforated lugs K, through which the bolt ends ofone of the clips extend to clamp the upper shackle-section against theunder side of a side bar, and the lower shackle-sections A, pivoted tothc transverse spring, and each having a cross-head I arranged insliding engagement with the upper shackle-section to slide back andforth between the nuts on the pendent 9 bolt ends, so that the nuts actas stops to prevent displacement of the lower shackle-sections,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

' FRANK BROWN.

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